Participants of the 10th International Conference “Lessons from the Holocaust” visited the State Archives of Brest Region, 22 June 2010

On 22 June 2010, the State Archives of Brest Region received the participants of the 10th International Conference “Lessons from the Holocaust”, which was organised by the Holocaust Research and Educational Center (Moscow) and took place on 21-23 June 2010 in Brest.

The participants included high school students and teachers from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Rumania taking up the subject of the Jewish genocide during the Second World War. Among the quests was the witness of those tragic events, Roman Levin, who at the age of 12 stayed at the Brest ghetto and miraculously escaped an inevitable death.

The co-chairman of the Holocaust Center, I.A. Altman, reported of the Center’s long-term cooperation with the State Archives of Brest Region and told how the archive’s records were used for the documentary film “Brest Ghetto”, released by the Moscow cinematographers in 1994.

The Archive’s director, A.G. Karapuzova, informed the participants about the contents of the archives from the Occupation period relating to the tragic fate of the Jewish population of Brest, and demonstared the most interesting documents on the topic.

The annual meetings at the Archives have already become a tradition and take place every 22 June (the day of the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War) during the past ten years.